Roofer s bending-tool



(No Model.)

W. L. & H. HEBERLING.

ROOFER'S BENDING TOOL.

No. 468,016. Patented Feb. 2, 1892.

Witness es.-

N'ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IVILLIAM L. HEBERLING AND HENRY IIEBERLING, OF HAVANA, ILLINOIS.

ROOFERS BEN Dl NG-TOOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 468,016, dated February2, 1892.

Application filed June 27. 1890. Serial No. 357,011. (No model.)

To all whom it may cancer.-

Be it known that we, WILLIAM L. HEBER- LING and HENRY HEBERLING,citizens of the United States, residing at Havana, in the county ofMason and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and usefulImprovements in RoofersBending-Tools; and we do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

The object of this invention is to provide a superior tool for makingthe first bend necessary in locking standing seams in metal roofing andfor similar work.

Our device as herein shown consists of two peculiar jaws pivotedtogether and having separate handles,which move from each other inturning a lock.

The details of the construction and operation of this tool will bebetter understood by reference to the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 shows our toolin perspective with the handles a and a broughttogether and jaws b and b apart ready for use. Fig. 2 showscross-sections through the tool in different positions while inoperation.

The handle a is rigidly attached to the jaw b, the lower part of which his supported and pivoted at the back by extensionse from the jaw b, asshown in Fig. 2. These extensions and the bar I) are in rigid relationwith each other and with the handle a, so that when the tool is placedastride a flange as in Fig. 2, and the handle a is brought out the edge(Z of the bar Z) and the pivoted base h of the bar I) are broughtagainst the flange on opposite sides in proper position to support it.When these supporting parts are in this position, an outward movement ofthe handled, which is attached to the folding-bar Z), causes the top Iof the bar I) to turn the top of the flange over the rigid edge (Z ofthe supporting-bar Z), as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2,

thus completing the work of the tool.

The advantages of this tool consist in the simplicity of itsconstruction and the great ease and rapidity with which it is operated.

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a roofers bending-tool, a folding-bar I), combined with anoppositebarb,provided with an edge (7, and rigid arched extensions whichpartially encircle the former bar and pivotally support it at theirends.

2. In a roofers bendingtool, a bar I), having an edge (Z and lateralextensions from its back arched over said edge, in combination with anopposite bar 1), partially encircled by said extensions and pivotallysupported by them at their ends and having a facel parallel with theedge (Z and lying between the handle or mechanism by which it isoperated and the line of its pivotal support.

3. In aroofers bending-tool, two parallel supporting-surfaces h and (1,held in fixed distance from each other by arched connections near theirends, in combination with a parallel folder Z, supported within the arcof said connections on pivots rigidly connected with the edge cl, overwhich the folder moves closely in doing its work.

4. In a roofers bending-tool, the bar 1), provided with a handle a, anedge d, and arched extensions 6 and e, in combination with the bar I),pivoted to the ends of said extensions and having the base h curvedabout the pivotal point, the angular top Z, and handle a, all as shownand described.

In testimony whereof we afiix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

WILLIAM L. HEBERLING. HENRY HEBERLING.

Witnesses:

FRANK I'IAVIGHORST, A. C. DUDY.

